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A classical music Christmas playlist!

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Jimbo W 12 Dec 2013

I've not being and enjoying the Radio 3 programming varying from Parsifal to Icelandic country music! Classic fm are just a rampant cheese fest. RTE Lyric fm brass band wasn't to my taste either, so I've put together some of my favourite music, I quite varied mix of old and new, without too much of the more hackneyed carols. I hope it is enjoyable for someone other than me? Please suggest some more classical fare to add to the list, or feel free to disagree with the choices I've made. I've allowed my biases to hold sway, thus the preponderance of Warlock and Howells! Hope you enjoy!

Benedicamus Domino - Warlock

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ - Bach

Coventry carol - Set by Leighton

Fantasia on Christmas carols - Vaughan Williams

The Cherry Tree Carol - Arr Willcocks

Here is the Little Door - Howells

Kyrie from the Messe de Minuit - Charpentier

Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noel - Poulenc

Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen - Praetorius

Balulalow - Warlock

In Dulci Jubilo - arr Pearsall

See amid the winter's snow - Sir John Goss

Hodie Christus Natus Est - Palestrina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR7PXx2CVI8#t=46&end=309

A spotless rose - Howells

Verbum caro factum est - John Sheppard:

Adam Lay Ybounden - Warlock

Ecce virgo concipiet - Byrd

Sing lullaby - Howells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTV-JKIne0I#t=20

The Wexford Carol - Irish arr Rutter

Videte miraculum - Tallis

In the Bleak midwinter - Darke

I sing of a maiden - Hadley

Bethlehem Down - Warlock

Long long ago - Howells

Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt - Bach

Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree - Poston

richard_hopkins 12 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

I know you already mentioned the ClassicFM cheese fest, but Prokofiev's Troika and Sleigh Ride must be on heavy rotation by now!

Jimbo W 12 Dec 2013

In reply to richard_hopkins:

Yuck! Not sure you're talking Delius' or Leroy Anderson's Sleigh ride, but am fed up with both!

Jimbo W 13 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

Here are some additions. Please feel free to make some suggestions!

Corpus christi carol - Britten (Jeff Buckley version is good too!!!)

I wonder as I wander - Niles arr Rutter

A babe is born - Matthias

O Magnum Mysterium - Victoria

A shepherd's carol - Britten (great W H Auden words)

Salve puerule - Charpentier

There is no rose - Anon
http://www.youtube.com/embed/q672sRnO27g?rel=0&start=21&end=93&...

Ikon of the nativity - John Tavener (sadly recently passed away)

Jimbo W 13 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

And another big omission here:

Hodie Christus Natus Est - Sweelinck

Stroppy Gob - Banned User 13 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

Nothing to add, but my thanks.

BusyLizzie 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:
I think you have all my favourites there, including many that I have sung in choirs over the years, some that I had forgotten, some that make me hugely happy, some that bring tears - thank you!

Post edited at 08:41

BusyLizzie 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

I might just add
Hassler, Verbum caro factum est

which sends a shiver down my spine. I like it a bit faster than this recording; and I like it because the music fits the Latin. Plenum gratiae (gentle minims) et veritatis (semi-quavers, to be sung fiercely). Full of grace and truth.

Jimbo W 14 Dec 2013

In reply to stroppygob and BusyLizzie:

Glad you're enjoying it.. ..I've put it into a youtube playlist too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bblRsk30uXM&list=PL6gOfw5QERBFA8KgsM-fKJ...

Great suggestion of the Hassler!

Any further suggestions appreciated!

icnoble 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

This is a wonderful version of
Hodie Christus natus est

The Lemming 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

Thought I'd jazz things up a bit with this classic.

The Lemming 14 Dec 2013

In reply to The Lemming:

OK, I was a a naughty little lemming, but how about this one?

LeeWood 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

I wouldn't care to name specific tunes/carols but I recommend the John Rutter Singers for choral renditions; they have several Xmas albums. I also listen to brass band renditions - some jazzy, in this season.

The Lemming 14 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

I quite like Sissel

Jimbo W 14 Dec 2013

In reply to The Lemming:

> OK, I was a a naughty little lemming, but how about this one?

Yeh.. ..but try the Steeleye Span version! Even better!

BusyLizzie 15 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

I have to add a further thank-you - I regard writing the Christmas cards with almost as much grumpiness as doing my tax return; but I have just done the lot, happily, with your lovely playlist playing in the background.

altirando 15 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

The finest rendering of In Dulce Jubilo has to be that by the Gabrielli Consort at the end of the Praetorius Christmas Mass, particularly good if you have widely spaced speakers. Lighter entertainment, the Hely Hutchinson Carol Symphony. Worth exploring the Alia Vox Savall discs for some older festive music.

malk 15 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:
Christmas Concerto - Corelli

Fraser 15 Dec 2013

In reply to The Lemming:

> I quite like Sissel

I think this is my favourite version of a christmas song by her, (not on that concert's playlist.)

Tim Chappell 15 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:
Also, and equally obviously:

Post edited at 14:30

Tim Chappell 15 Dec 2013

In reply to Jimbo W:

Doh, my first post's gone. It apologised that this isn't on Youtube, because this, I think, is pretty darn close to a definitive version:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Messiah-Georg-Friederich/dp/B000024ZY3/ref=s...